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flake
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flake is a Google Go (golang) package that provides a very simple twitter snowflake generator.
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flake is a Go package that provides a very simple twitter snowflake ID generator along with several functions to convert an ID into different formats.
Getting Started
Installing
This assumes you already have a working Go environment, if not please see this page first.
go get github.com/bwmarrin/flake
Usage
Import the package into your project.
import "github.com/bwmarrin/flake"
Construct a new flake Node that can be used to generate snowflake IDs then call the Generate method to get a unique ID. The only argument to the NewNode() method is a Node number. Each node you create must have it's own unique Node number. A node number can be any number from 0 to 1023.
node, err := flake.NewNode(1)
id := node.Generate()
fmt.Printf("ID: %d, %s\n", id, id.String())